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I have acquired a HP dl360 g4p with a MSA20 Modular Smart Array.

Currently I have Arch Linux installed on it since I had some issues with the graphics. But that is not why I am asking a question.

There is an issue with mounting the array. I currently have two logical drives consisting of 500GB harddrives in RAID 6.

In Linux the two logical drives is showing up as two seperate devices (/dev/cciss/c0d0 and /dev/cciss/c0d1) with sizes of 1800 something GB). No issues with partitioning the two devices into /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 and /dev/cciss/c0d1p1.

But where it all goes wrong is when mounting the partitions. Error messages follows as:

random_server_name% sudo mount /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /mnt/disk1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cciss/c0d1p1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error

   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail or so.

And the output from dmesg | tail is:

random_server_name% dmesg | tail
[ 5522.310178] cciss 0000:0b:04.0: cmd ffff880037985000 has CHECK CONDITION sense key = 0x5
[ 5522.330529] cciss 0000:0b:04.0: cmd ffff880037985780 has CHECK CONDITION sense key = 0x5
[ 5522.350805] cciss 0000:0b:04.0: cmd ffff880037985500 has CHECK CONDITION sense key = 0x5
[ 5522.371078] cciss 0000:0b:04.0: cmd ffff880037985a00 has CHECK CONDITION sense key = 0x5
[ 5522.391385] cciss 0000:0b:04.0: cmd ffff880037985c80 has CHECK CONDITION sense key = 0x5
[ 5522.411697] cciss 0000:0b:04.0: cmd ffff880037985280 has CHECK CONDITION sense key = 0x5
[ 5522.432025] cciss 0000:0b:04.0: cmd ffff880037985000 has CHECK CONDITION sense key = 0x5
[ 5522.489858] VFS: Dirty inode writeback failed for block device cciss/c0d1p1 (err=-5).
[ 5524.703565] JBD2: no valid journal superblock found
[ 5524.703574] EXT4-fs (cciss!c0d1p1): error loading journal

I have tried to fix the filesystem using fsck but it did not work. Also there is no connectivity issues since it was possible to communicate using hpacucli which enables you to show information about the storage array and enables you to configure it.

Cheers

kitzin
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  • Have your tried mounting a scsi LUN from another operating system and formatting or just from ARCH? – Citizen Jun 03 '16 at 00:07

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I'm hoping you created filesystems after you defined the partitions. I'm assuming ext4?

Anyway, the cciss CHECK CONDITION errors in dmesg indicate an array failure.

I know this is Arch, so HP support is pretty poor, but can you see if you can install hpssacli or hpacucli?

I'd like to see the output of:

hpacucli ctrl all show config and hpacucli ctrl all show config detail

ewwhite
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  • I've already installed `hpacucli` and there is no issue with communicating with the array. – kitzin Jun 03 '16 at 20:13
  • Please provide the output of `hpacucli ctrl all show config` and `hpacucli ctrl all show config detail` in your question. – ewwhite Jun 03 '16 at 20:21
  • [Output from the commands](http://pastebin.com/EPFrG4iQ) – kitzin Jun 07 '16 at 14:25
  • How did you create the filesystem? Show the command. Please show the output of "fdisk -l" and "blkid" – ewwhite Jun 07 '16 at 14:28
  • I used `parted /dev/cciss/c0d0` and then `mklabel gpt`, `mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 100%`, after that I ran the command `mkfs.ext4 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1`. Here is the output from the commands [`fdisk -l`](http://pastebin.com/Gj0gPjbb) and [`blkid`](http://pastebin.com/y824tyzG) – kitzin Jun 07 '16 at 15:58